Ok, so after my daughter was done raging at me and her dad, she said that she was going to go "grey rock." I just looked up what it means and, I only wish she would go grey rock,
. Sounds like a survival technique for myself. It basically is this:
The grey rock method involves communicating in an uninteresting way when interacting with abusive or manipulative people. The name “grey rock” refers to how those using this approach become unresponsive, similar to a rock.
The technique may involve:
avoiding interactions with the abusive person
keeping unavoidable interactions brief
giving short or one-word answers to questions
communicating in a factual, unemotional way
The aim is to cause the abusive person to lose interest and stop their antagonistic behavior, to protect a person’s emotional well-being.
It seems that this is what a lot of us have to do, even though we have not called it that.
